The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-07 00:00:00

- - • MONEY MARKSi AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELTE O'CLOCK. Moderate supplies of gold continue to pass into the vaults of the Bank of England, and this cir cumstance is exerting a beneficial influence in monetary circles as well as the Stock Exchange, where affairs are much less gloomy than they were a few days ago. The quantity of gold purchased by the authorities yesterday was £65,000, and other similar operations are likely to take place during the nett few days. There is scarcely any altera tion to report in the actual condition of the discount market. It is tolerably well provided with floating capital, but as no decided opinion can be formed as to the future, the jointastock and private establish ments still restrict their transactions, and are mani festing an unusu a l d egree o f cautionin all the busi ness they negotiate. Long dated bills are by no means in favour, and at the present moment one o f the most popular channels for the temporary ern ploy meat of surplus money is the Stock Exchange, where loans from day to day are freely offered at 5 per cent. upon the security of the English Funds. It is satisfactory to be able to state that the rumours circulated at the Stock Exchange within the last few days relative to commercial embarras. ments have proved unfounded. Although failures may be occasionally announced, there can be no doubt that the trade of the country is very healthy, and as credit has been exceedingly well maintained no difficulty is experienced by respectable houses in obtaining all the accommodation requisite to discharge their accruing engagements. 0 wing to the position of the exchanges and other considerations, the flow of gold to the continent is not expected to be immediately resumed on an ex tensive scale, and this is rather in favour of mone tary prospects. Large quantities of gold are coming forward from Russia, which, with the receipts from Australia, America, &c., will ensure a very large importation of the precious meta!s. The City of Baltimore has arrived from America with £12,606. ....m• a.m., ..... Two O'CLCK. An advance of i per cent. has taken place in in the value of the Funds, although at one time it appeared as if a further decline was inevitable: The improve ment has occurred through few purchases engen dered by a more hopeful feeling with regard to future monetary prospects. Consols are now 871 for money, and 88} i for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 851 I ; March Excbequßr Bills, ss. dis. ; and India 5 per Cents., 103 f. In the Foreign Market rather more firmness has been apparent, and business is not active. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70 f; do. Consolides, 60! 4 ; Mexican, 28.1; do. New 25 ; Greek, 24k e ; Spanish Passive, 31i; do. Certificates, 13i j ; Portuguese, 47i; and the Confederate Loan, 791 801. In the Railway share Market there has been rather a firmer tone. Caledonian have improved 55.; and Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Great Western, each 10s. ; while North Western have declined £l, The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive at about former values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares, in one or two instances, slightly improved. Alliance realise 63; Bank of Australasia. 74; European Bank, 69i; Metropolitan and Provincial, 24i, ; Oriental Bank, 591 ; London Financi3l, 231 ; Hudson Bay Company, ; Credit Fonei er an d Mobilier of England Shares are quoted 3 3i prem, BRITISH FtNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do Account, Aug. 8 3 per Cent. Reduced 5l New 3 per C ent Bsi ti Now 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th J an., 1880.. Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885... Do (Rod Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908... Mach. Juno, Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 &31 per Cent. '£soo ............ Do £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stk, 5t per Ct. . 5 dis Do Account — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874.: — Do Account Do 6 per Cent. July, 1570 Do 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do Certificates Do Account Do 1 per Cent, (Deferred 3 per Cent.).. Do 41 pee C en t... , Do Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent Do 6 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879 Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do Bonds £l,OOO Do under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Brazilian 5 per Cent .......... Do 4/ per Cent., 1 852-58-60 Do 1863 Buenos Ayres 6 or Cent Do Account.... —•... Chilian 6 per C en t ... ... Do 41 per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent 6666 Cuba, 6 per Cent. Do 5 per Cent. 1864 Danish 3 per C en t ., 1825 Do 4 per Cent, 1863 .............. £quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. -- Do, Provisonal Land Warrant Egyptian 7 per:Cent VB Do, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-6, ex-Coupons DDo Account Do Coupons o Account .................. Guatemala 6 per Cent .............. Do 1839 a n d 185 9 y) 72i.. Italian 6 p er C ent.(M R arewmana ailwa IVlexican 3 p er Cent 71 Blt Do 1864.. Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Ditto Scrip, £23 paid Moorish imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred ........ Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Do Debentures, 4 par Ct., Ap r il 1861..._ Do do Aug., 1866 --Teru.vian 41 per Cent Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 4/ per Cent., 1862 — Do Account.... . 791 Portugues e 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account ...................... Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 — Do Account ..'1856,'7,'9, 47} 7 Xtussian 6 per Cent., 1822, St Do 41 per Cent., 1850 Do 1 860..........6 — Do 3 per Ce n t 1859 Do 5 per Cent, 1862 Do Anglo-Dutch .... Lo Scrip, £4O p a id .. ardiLian 6 , per Cent pal Do Account Spanish ........................ per Cent ....... D o Account . .............. DDo New LcifeWed...... "*" o Acconnt ................. D o passive .......................... o Account ................. .. . ..... 30/ Spanish Cert. of Cou);;Ot.fu.n.de'd . Do Account . ..... .... 131 'Swedish, 4 per Cent. ............. Do Scrip, £6O paid. .......... Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 ................... Do Account .......................... Do 6 per Cent. 1858 ................ Do Account ........................ 6 91 9 Do £lOO Bond s Do 6 per Cont. 1862 ])o Account Do £lOO Bo n d s.. .. 70 Do 1863 65 Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent..... Du 1863 Scrip, £4O paid .... Venezuela 3 per Glint. D° Account..... ................... Do 6 per Cent., -3-i° Account. ..................... Do 6 per Cevat., 1864 ................ Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. It) Florins. 1)o Act:wait ...................... 11 .t• per Cent., E. 25f. ........ Dutch 2/ Per- Cent. Ex 12 G *I Do 4 _ „ • ........ Per k;ent. Certificates Italia ti 6 p e .......... r cent , 1861 1? f Do Account .. . , 4 rancs.. Frer. ch Rentes, ... ... ..... . Peruvian Dollar 'Bonds, 4% pe Pcr ..; Ct . lo .4 . Piamontese, 5 per Cent; Ex. 25 . f ..... .. s ' :- Consols Money .p....... T HREE O'CLOCK , .... 1 Do Account ........................ 87 1 ... ' • TILIIKE OF LA BOURERS.--- r i e ' re employed on he large block of buildings intended for model lodging hiuses, now being erected in Farringdon-road, have struck work for an advance of ls. per week. The contractors have been hitherto p ay i ng £t per week to tb.eir labourers, SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share' Railways. p a i d : Closing 1 Business Price. done. Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon. 13.14.1 83 85 121 125 6 7 32 34 16 17 83 91 110 112 45i 46} 7 7i l'B 1:311 140 141 127 130 (JO 92 04 61 1151 1151 65 66 10% W 3 40 41 112 112; 95 P 6 65 C 6 10(4 106! 130} 131 10) IC2 54 65 25 26 105 105 63j 65 94 63} 36 37 9 10 I, 74 84 0 123 126 1} p 74} 75} 11 Hi 126 130 57 59 33 E 7 83 83} 101 103 7 8 160 165 5 6 2 3 p 101 103 34 36 124 i Cornwall ... A gets no div Do A tillGpc.p an.has Do. B been paid to .13.! Dublin & Belfast Junc. Durt.,Perth,&Ab. Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western)Gr eatEastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock 1 Ditto EastAnglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern.... • • Do A stock Do L do Gt. S. and W. of Irelan Great Western,Original Do Str Val elm toes Do. South Wales ... • Do. by eat Mid. --Oxiorai Do Newport' Do Hereford 1 Lancashite & Yorkshire' London and Blaokwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So%th Western Man., Shot., & Lincoln. Marypert and Carlisle. Dot shires— Metropolitan Midland Do firming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent 'North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee 'Nth. Eastern—Berwioi; Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle Do. Stook. .tz Darling Do do 1855-58 Do do 186L-G1 North London Do Now Do New, .18r4. North Statrorushire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central . Scot. N. E., Aber. stock, Do Scot. MM. stock.. IShrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union .... mouth 'South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok Taff Vale., Do B Do C ......... Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny, West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Liar. &R I BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Sharc Railways Paid. Price. Business done 100 lalticie &St Lawrenct all 58 60 "lona.,Baredat.C en t I nt Sk 100 1001 4 1C24 101 Gu. 5 per cent... . 20 Do. E. 5hare5......... 74 dis p 104 %Maio and Laxe 'Juror, all 0 5 1 10 Do. Preference .... . all 74 84 100 rtuffalo,Brant,&Godric.l 100 75 80 (S p. at. bds. Aug. 1, 187; 100 Do. do. July 1, 187. 100 75 80 100 Jo. do. June 1, 187- 100 75 80 at ilcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lin; IGO 97 99 St ospeTown Dock Seri, 100 94 96 100 Demerara 7 p.c. per. pf all stook ttastn. Bengal gu. b p luo 102 104 102 11 Stook ki;ast Indian, u. sp. c 1 00 101 102 1016 1 20 Do. do. G Ext..... all 191 201 20 Do. do. H do. .. all 191 20} 20 stook grand Trunk of Canads j LA) 19 23 1: 0 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge C. per cent ail 91 93 100 Do. Ist fret. Bonus au 71 73 100 Do. do. deterred...... all CO 63 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bons all 65 67 100 Do. do. deferred all 55 67 10 0 Do. 3d Pref. stock all 48 52 100 Do. do. deferred...—. all 43 45 100 Do. 4th I'ref. stock all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 26 28 stook Gt.lndlaPenln.gua.sp.o 100 102 103 WI 40 Do. New gua. sp. 12 par ip 2 stook Pl. South.of India (L Jai guaranteed 5 per cent. WI 99 101 stock Do. 41 per cent 100 stock Do =4 It. W. of Canada Share : all 94 10 XO4 Do. New 18 101 104, 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 89 91 100 Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8 all 82 88 10 [ndian Branch Limited 2 d 40 stock Madras, guar., sp. c. 100 904 1001 100 stook Do. 4/ p. o. Extensica 100 93 95 934 stook De. 41 do 100 89 91 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock Ifelb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnde 100 50 Ilelb. & Hobson's Bay. all t 8 CO 100 Do. 7p. 0. Olortg. Bds. all *0 gewßrunswiok & Can& Class A and B. N.ll.C'da6 po let pf bds 100 80 81 stock Soinde (100 994 100 i stock Do. Delhi.... 1 4., 1 100 994 lON XO Do. do „„ t 2 id par St Do. Punjaub all 934 100. 991 Do. Do. t stook Do. Indus. St. Flo.) J 1,100 95 97 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 pert cent., Dec. 3,, 1872....! 100 Do. do. 1883.... 100 U 7.6 1877-S4 ........ 100 96 99 95 5i 6j Do. Ap. c. Feb. 4.• Aug 100 96 93 Do.t p. c. Mar. & Sept 100 98 102 Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. lOC 84 86 831 Do. 5 Inscribed stool , 100 84 86 ape G.llope, 6 p 0,187: 100 104 106 Do.Ap & Oct. 1881 100 107 109 Do. 189( 100 109 111 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 107 109 2eylon, N0v.1878, 6n , 100 110 112 Aauritins 6 p.cent. 1873 100 103 105 Do. 1878 'OO 103 106 Do. 1882 IC4 104 103 Vatal Gov. 6 per cent.. 10u 101 107 -. 1.8.G0v. p.c..) a.&Jul3 100 97 100 97 Do. 6p. c. Ap. Oct. 100 B.IV. G ov. 6 p 2., ISol 100 97 99 p. c.,18t1 to 1:17( 100 96 98 97 Do. d0.,1888 & upwch 100 96 98 961 6 New Zealand 6 p cent 100 Sova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. sterling, 1876 .. . ..... 100 99 102 queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 100 103 100 i Aus G. op.o. 1 878.& up.. 100 106 108 Vio.GoV. 6 p.c. JadirJul) 100 Do. to 6 p.a. A.0.&00t.. 100 .09 110 109 81 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold k;htlord Amalgamated.; I 30 32 Devon G. Con, (Tavist.) 1 580 590 555 71} w':,ast Bassett (1llogan) 30 67 69 East Clogau Gold Ltd d i East Caraclon ...... 1.14.8 27 28 23 Nast! Carn 8rea....... 3.4.0 7% 7I E. Russel (Tavistk.; 8.13.0 5 5f Garn.&St.Aubyn(Gwen 581 5 7 iGreat South Tolgus 17s 2 2/ x. Wheal Vor (lielston 40 28 29 281 'Grenville • Ilerc. , d's-Foot . . 8.12 88 40 Flingston Downs --4.18.0 31 4% Lady Bertha 'Margaret (tiny Lelant 9% 7 9 llarke llyndy Iron Oro (Lim.; 21, 1% le, Tew Seton 1 9 .1 75 85 —• North Downs 3 1% It Basset (111o4an, 3.1.0 2 2% INorth Wheal Crotty 2.6.9 3 33 t'ar Consols (St. Blazey I Crovidence (lJny Lelnt.)l 10.00 40 42 Bouth Caradon(St.Cleer, 11 100 520 8. Carn Brea (Illogan) — I B.Wheal Fran. (Mogan ; 18.18.9 421 471 Stray Park .. . .... rarnarSilv.& Lead . fin Cron West Basset (Mogan) lf 8 9 WCr rad on (Liskeard ) 9 9% 101 West Salon •• • 471 1,05 215 2071 Whelk]. Basset (Mogan ) , r)k 92 85 Wheal Buller(ltedruth); 10 18 20 4i 7 heal Kitty (U.Lelant); 2.0.8 WhealLudectt 3.5.8 11 2 IWheal Mary Ann (;den.) 8 14 18 Wheal fleton ......... . 581 215 207 i Wheal Trelawney (Li s. ) 7 1 2 19 21 Wheal Uni0n..........! 4 l% 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. I, 104 Great Northern, 5 per cent., 410 Great Western Orig. 4} per cent pf., 97 North Eastern, Stockton and Darlington, B and C 6 per cent., 31t PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Kent Coast, G per cent. pref. B, 101 LINES LEASED AT FISED RENTALS. Lancaster and Carlsle, 207 S London and Chatham, 41 per Cent., E 9 Ditto, Com. Fund stock, 5 percent., 97 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 12 111 San Paulo gua. 7 per cent,:.-- Ditto, (all), 18i FOREIGN BIENES T Cape Copper, lint, Hi Alliance (11m.), 51 21, 11 3 Ditto, new, 48} 74 Anglo Austrian, 7/ Australasia, 74 Bank of British Columbia, 16 Bank of Egypt, 27 Bank of Wales, Um., 171 City, 122 1 Consolidated Bank, lira., 104 1 Englist Scotch, and Australian C hartered, 20 En^:itsli and Swedish, lira., 15 P .luiopean Bank, lira. 13 12; 134 Hindustan, China, and Japan (lim),—. Ditto, new, 19 Imperial Bank aim). 33 4 4 Ditto, new, 23 MDerial Bank of china, india,!and Japan, lira., 5 44 5 Lo ndon and Brazilian tlirm), Imp er i al Ottoman, 161 4 46a London Chartered Bank of Australia, 24 London and County, 721 4 L ondon Joint Stock, 431 11 5 L ondon and South African, 22 London and S outh-Western, 26 London and W estminster, Merchant Bank, liut, 26 Mercantile and Exenanze, 134 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, 1101. 2 4 ,4 National of Liv er p ool. limited, 151 National Provincial of England, 146 Ditto, ditto. 384 Oriental Lam( Corporation, 58j ii3} Union of London, 51 2 1; DOCKS, London and Si. Katharine, 681 311 SCELLANEOLts. Australian Agricultural, 20 Australian Mort. Lard and Finance. Una,. 2/ Commercial Union, Insurance, 8 tlygg 4 Continental lJniun Gas, lira., 8/ 4 Credit Fonder, 131 Credit Mobi r, 14 13} Discount Corporation, IS Egyptian Coin. and Trading, lira., 3}, a Fore -street Warehouse, lira., 6 a Gen. credit anti Finance of London, Um., 61 1 Hudson's Bay, 16, ImperLd Mercantile Credit A 5110441112., 74 8 Inthart Carryiug, Jim., 14 THE SUN, LONDOI4, WEI)NESI)AY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1864 MISCELLANEOUS—Continued. International Financial Society, lira., 8: a International Land Credit, lira„ Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 8i Joint Stock Discount, lira., 64 London Financial Association, lira., 231 21 31 Ditto, new, 174 London General Omnibus Company, 3 National Discount Company, lira., 13 North British and Mercantile Insurzuce, lira., 17a Nova Scotia Gold and Land, lira., Ditto (Ey, Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 804 Royal Mail Steam, 95} Telegraeh Construe. and Maintenance, lira., 33 ; his neck down stairs at the sound of thy voice? What wouldst thou have done then, little Pansie ?" " Kiss poor grandpapa and make him well !" answered the child, remembering the doctor's own mode of cure in similar mishaps to herself. "It shall do poor grandpapa good I" she added, putting up her mouth to apply the remedy. " Ah, little one, thou hest greater faith in thy medicines than ever I had in my drugs," replied the patriarch with a giggle, surprised and delighted at his own readiness of re sponse. " But the kiss is good for my feeble old heart, Pansie, though it might do little to mend a broken neck; so give grandpapa another dose, and let us to breakfast." POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUG 13-STREET. Tim NEW MEDICAL ACT.-Mr Wm. Talley, solicitor, of Beacon's-fields, Bucks, in correspondence with the General Council of Medical Education and Registration, applied to Mr Tyr whitt under the New Medical Act for a summons against a person, pretending to be a surgeon, and placing on his door a plate with the word "Surgeon" upon it. Mr TS , rwh.itt read the 40th clause:of the act, as follows: "Any person who shall wilfully and falsely pretend to be, or take or use the name or title of a physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine, surgeon, general practi tioner, or apothecary, or any name, title, addition, or de scription implying that he is registered under the Act, or that he is recognised by law as a physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine, surgeon, general practi tioner, or apothecary, shall, upon summary conviction for any such offence pay a sum not exceeding £20," and granted the summons. Mr Talley said that in applying for the summons he wished to state that there was no feeling of animosity to wards the person, but that it was for the protection of the public. WEST MINSTER, Ommiars CONDUCTORS' TRICKERI.—A very respectable looking woman applied to the magistrate for redress under the following circumstances : Applicant said that on Sunday night last she get into an omnibus at the Cambridge road to bo conveyed to St. George's Hospital. On passing Knightsbridge barracks she gave the conductor a shilling to take her fare, and when she got out said, "I gave you a shilling, if you remember, and I have not had my change," He replied, " Y es, all right, ma'am," and then the omnibus drove oft, the con ductor pointing to his badge after he had gone some die stance, Oomplainant had succeeded in getting the number of the omnibus, and on going to the Bank on the following morning saw the omnibus time-keeper, who gave her the conductor's badge number. Mr Dap]) an inquired whether it was a Kew-bridge or a Hammersmith omnibus. Applicant said it was a Hammersmith omnibus only. Mr Dayman—What is the fare ? Applicant—Sixpence. Mr Dayman— Is there any difference of fare on a Sunday or after any particular time of night ? Applicant—There is a difference after 8 o'clock, but there is no faro whatever amounting to a shilling, which has been taken of me. Mr Dayman—What is the increased fare—it must be put upon the table of fares in the omnibus ? Applicant—lt is stated there, " Ninepence to London after 8 o'clock"—that is, either from Hammersmith or the Cambridge-road, the entire distance. Mr Dayman—You may take a summons for the over charge. THAMES. ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—Harriett Penn, a surly-looking woman, was charged before Mr Partridge with attempting to murder George Allen, a sailor, at his lodings, Cornwall street. It appeared from the evidence that on the previous even ing about 9 o'clock complainant returned home, when he found the prisoner lying drunk on the bed. He told her to get up and get him his tea, and observed that he supposed she intended to serve him as she did a week ago. As she objected to do as he wished, he remarked that he would pack up his goods and go away in the morning. He was in the act of tying up his things and stooping down for that purpose, when the prisoner, who was behind him, gave him a violent blow on the head with a chopper, which caused the blood to flow profusely. Mr Partridge—Did she say anything when she struck you ? Complainant said she called him a b—, and was about to strike him again, when a policeman came in. Mr Partridge—Have you felt any serious effects from the blow ? Complainant—Yes, sir. I have not been able to work since. I went to the station-house, where the wound was dressed by Mr. Ross, the divisional surgeon, who said it was a very bad wound. K 245 stated that he hoard the disturbance, and that when he got in the room he found the complainant covered with blood, and the prisoner was wiping the blood from the chopper, (The constable produced the instrument, which had blood on it.) The prisoner was remanded. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The arrivals of English wheat, fresh up to our markets to. day, were very moderate. The trade, however, was quiet for all qualities, yet no change took place in prices, compared with Monday. With foreign wheat, the market was well supplied. In most descriptions, a limited business was transacted, at previous quotations. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates. There was a moderate supply of barley on the stands. Generally speaking the trade was dull, and prices had a , drooping tendency. 100} The malt trad® was quiet, at late rates. The supply of oats on sale was large. There was less activity in the demand for most descriptions; nevertheless, prices ruled firm. Beans and peas were in limited supply, and both articles commanded extreme rates. Flour was in moderate request, at Monday's quototions. ARRIVALS THIS VIZEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English 320 GO 530 110 290 Irish Foreign 3,110 1,670 10,900 380 brls. BOROUGH HOP. The supply of new hops on sale is tolerably largo, and the trade rules heavy, at drooping prices, WIIITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the demand rules inactive, as follows : Of Beef, from 2s 10d to; 4s 4d; mutton, 3s 8d to 43 8d; veal, 33 6d to 4s 4d; and pork, 3s Qtl to 4s 6d per Blbs by the carcase. THE BIRKENHEAD STREET RAlLWAY.—Birken head, which resembles many American cities in having the advantage of an extensive street railway system, is to be subjected to law for this reason. Mr. Gough, hotel pro prietor, and Mr. Evans, omnibus proprietor (whose traffic the street railway interferes with), have intimated that un less the line of rails in Bridge-street are at once taken up, they will take such steps to enforce their removal as the solicitors acting for them may advise, PREMATURE SHONE a.—Like many other pro found thinkers, Mr Punch is fond of smoking, and he naturally entertains a sympathy for smokers. To have his sympathy, however, smokers must smoke sensibly, and not commit excesses. Xi l'unih likes moderate drinking, but he hates to see men drunk; and he regards immoderate smokers as only a shade less to be despised by hint than drunkards. Smoking prematurely is, to Illr Punch's think ing, the worst form of excess, and the one which moves in him Most hat: ed and disgust. Smoking prematurely is a selfish, snobbish practice, and it is matter for re gret that there are not more means to stop it, Clearly it is nonsense to pretend that boys can really have a need or liking for tobacco, or be a whit the better or the happier for using it. Boys who prematurely smoke do so not because they like it, but because they think it manly to be seen able to smoke, Such smokers aro, in fact, mean, silly little snobs, and all right-minded people justly hold them in con tempt. Nature does her best to act as their tobacco stopper; but by practice they acquire the power to smoke without being made sick by it, and this done they delude them selves by fancying that tobacco has become a vital need to them, and when they smoke they try to think they really relish it. This, however, is sheer nonsense, for the true taste for tobacco comes alone with age, like the appetite for turtle, and it is not to be acquired by those who prematurely seek it. Moreover, bo3 s who take to smoking have nut the sense to put due bounds on their indulgence, and they are apt to smoke at times when it does them the most injury, and is to others the worst nuisance. Unable to control themselves, they smoke in business hours and in going to their business; and when going out to dinner they take a furtive pipe, and even come into a drawing-room with coats that stink of stale tobacco. Now, tobacco is a good thing, and good things ought not to be wasted. Smoking prematurely is a worse than waste, tir it annoys people about him and only harms the smoker. Ono cannot well doubt this, if one but sees the pimply cheeks and tallowy complexions of the young short-pipe sucking fools who meet us everywhere. Every whiff they take up helps to blow their brains out, and put out of tune their organs of digestion. Few mon can smoke ear ly,in the day w thout hurting them, and any boy who does so must assuredly be weakened both in body and in mind by it. A boy (which word applies to all youths under 20) who goes to business daily with a pipe between his teeth has put on enemy into his mouth, that will steal away his brains, and it is well that his employer should bo warned against the robbery. Smoking prematurely is a habit as injurious as taking early morning drams, or drinking port wine before dinner ; and as the evil has increased to really serious dimensions, Air Punch may be excused for nicking serious remarks, and not making a joke of it,—.Pum/t, A charmingly readable little violet-coloured sit• penny brochure, is this timely tribute to one, alas, now dead and gone—Robson, of the Olympic! It ought, however, to have had its authorship more accurately defined upon its title-page. The" Sketch" of Robson as here given to us, is—in spite of what the title-page asserts—not by Mr. Sala. Three gen■ tlemen are, by that random assertion, coolly rolled into one, like (as Mrs. Malaprop would say) Cer berus. One of the three, if you will, is the famous New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, that capital, comical, vivacious, sparkling, delightful ready-writer of reports, novels, newspaper articles, anything you please—whom it was the fashion once upon a time to sneer at as Dickens-and-water I G. A. Sala, to wit, of " Twice Round the Clock," of the " Seven Sons of Mammon," of " Gislight and Day• light," of the Temple Bar lifacazine, of the staff of Household Words, and All the Year Bound, author of " Quite. Alone," photographer of " The Streets of the World," Reporter, Romancist, Essayist, Correspondent I Nee, here, too, as a Sketcher of poor Robson, as a celebrant of his genius, as a delineator of his peculiarities—Mr Sala is—how shall we put it ? Well, he is not the least bit in the world like his last heroine in being " Qaite Alone !" He is, here, oa the contrary, as we have said, but as One Out of Three. And—as it happens—in spite of all his brilliant powers, as a Sketcher of London People, and especially of London Celebrities—Mr Sala is here simply as— the last and the least of the three. His colaborateurs in the production of this most acceptable, because wonderfully well-timed memo rial of Robson, being—the anonymous biographer of Robson (immediately after the latter's recent de mise) in the columns of our very able and thoroughly and most consistently liberal contem porary the Daily News, and—in this, not only making up the third, but fairly leading them off— the publisher himself, Mr. Hotten, of Piccadilly. In point of feet, therefore,whatever there is in this little memorial sketch of Robson, that is perfectly fresh and original, is Mr. Hotten's. The rest of it, being simply so much reprint—here from the Daily News—there from the American journal for which Mr. Sala pencilled his limning of Robson while Robson himself was yet living. What we are especially thankful for, therefore, in the matter of this livraison, is precisely this fresh fragmentary morsel of information in regard to Thomas Brown bill, otherwise Frederick Robson, penned by Mr. Rotten, of Piccadilly, and penned by him in the manner following. Quoth Mr. Rotten (after a graphic sketch of the locality referred to)—in a little out-of-the-way back-alum hard by the Strand, in a strange cluster of holes and corners, yclept Bedford bury, there in the year 1836, and while he was yet no more than fifteen years of age— bne Thomas Robson Brownbill, a little boy from Mar gate, was apprenticed to Mr Smellie, the copperplate en graver and well-known printer of Mr George Cruikshank's humorous plates. Master Brownbill's friends had found him crazy after the stage as other urchins sometimes are after a sea life. Various professions, less romantic but conceived to be more respect able, were mentioned to him, but, with the exception of the graver's art, he would not listen to any one of them. This he thought he might like, so his mother resolved to try him. The lad soon became an immense favourite with his master and the workmen, and they familiarly nicknamed him "Bill," "little Bill," a sort of jocose shortening of his sur name, Brownbill—for he was not known as Robson until some years later, when he adopted a christian name as his theatrical title, adding Frederick, which he considered de cidedly stylish and quite out of the common ; a custom, not very unusual I believe, with other ladies and gentlemen of his profession. I met one of the workmen the day after his death, and told him of his old comrade's departure. " What, little Bill gone I" he said. "Ah he wee a merry lad, but he had better by half 'a stuck to the bench." " Little Bill" soon began to exhibit his theatrical tastes to the workmen, and his powers of mimicry kept the estab lishment from morn until night in a continual state of good humour. It a knife grinder or other travelling oddity en tered the court, Bill buttoned up his coat, cocked his hat, and bawled in imitation until the tears ran down the men's faces with laughter. The apprentice always dressed showily, and usually had his hair artificially curled in ringlets. His hat was an extra size with a twisted brim, and as he wore this somewhat jauntily set upon a rather large-sized head, the vulgar boys of the court used to called him the " little big head." Alas for the uncertainties of parental authority! Although the days were occupied over the graver, the nights were almost as regularly spent on the two or three amateur stages which were then to be met with in this neighbourhood, end the costume we have just mentioned, and the ringie•ts, were simply the effects of the mind's bent and the evening's re creation. The youth, however, never shirked work fer play ; and his master used to say that there was not a man I or boy in his shop who was so regular in the morning's at tendance as little Brownbill. At this time he lived with his mother—his father had been dead many years—in Henry street,Vauxhall, so that he had some distance to walk daily. He was bound for seven years, but only stopped four with his master. An unforeseen circumstance happening, the now skilful engraver and amateur theatrical found himself at 19 out of his time, and his own master. Whether it was a promise made to his mother, or that he feared to rely en tirely on the stage for a livelihood, we do not know, but certain it is that immediately upon obtaining his liberty he did not go and enlist, without more ado, in the dramatic corps of one of the London theatres. In his old apprentice ship days, he used to say he would do so directly an oppor tunity offered itself; b u t thi s was probably one of those little threats with which sanguine young people are apt to thoughtlessly alarm their fidgetti elders. His master gave relinquished. oFo maTtthheete the amateur theatrical, finding himself free, very wisely Brownbill now took a shop in Bryd up business in the old court, and removed to Scotland, and conceived that a little business might be formed out of the "Lord Lovel"— m a e he continued to paper attached old customers that Mr Smellie had gabesar.isdtroeneetcl;cll,olvreßnto-bgsaorn. Covent-gar den, and here he carried on business as a master engraver for both 2 ot m h ownitthhs.himDsuelrfinagndthheiswahuodlieeetfc te:iswtai Cr o f frn e r i n o g a h i c s o n u e n i take part in amateur performances, and a favourite song, adpur eosledu t friend ho lass a t s h b a e t ehnebeforene never e r s e mt h rr a ene ra tr C oo t wb e s T ne . tr F yi yYll's :epnt piecehe a t business had been takengh provincial,home his but toolslatte latterly hg t to un t h re r e i na shutters lßyrsYudngge tf keep as curiosities, and had accepted the first nt igmsrmea engraver small theh aa Pl try I have just said that he kept his a large public--one u b manager.lai n c — c tools when h© gave up his business, He used to say to metropolitan —as Frederick Robson. looked at or handled them without pleasant reminiscences of those early apprentice days passed in the quaint little Bedfordbury-Ntuare days unalloyed by the cares of managerial life or mental dejection. Of this strange, eccentric, Tragic-Comic actor— this pre-eminent Grotesque—Robson, of the Olympic--there appears, u pon the cover of this sixpenny brochure, the vera efit . ies in the shape of a little woodcut presenting hits to our view as The Wandering Minstrel! In respect to the won drous representation of which dilapidated (not to' say squalid) character by Robson) We remember our selves hearing D o uglas Jerrold remark one day, with a pretended shudder....“ I could fancy his playing it—on his Benefit Night —with real ver min !" An anecdote entirely at Mr. Hotten's service —in the event of his reprinting this admirable sketch of Robson. .M...1...M% ••••••11. N a thaniel Hawthorne.as Hotten. Pansie. By It t e r o e tn d es "Pansie" is simulta. In appearance -- i g neously with the foregoing _, a pansies to be looked into—ah, °"'""a Companion publica tion. But—when (" To Annie,") ° o f f it ! Yes, here in "Pansie" how different! Th e nameless odour of death, it is :;h: eu d in t l u e o r o r f the little book—the death, true, is upon each--w ha t Edgar Poe, in his most wonderful poem r red Puritan to, defines ,,....,, at "-=the e t h d e e ‘ll' death, s i e n s inmart'"Robson,", ,i,i o n d bi o eo, , fo " f o tr theh " just beUtrierUfel —not one of the Poe'e death-song Pan sies"but charming little sketch of the child Pansie—we have the last little fragrant efflorescent morsel of Haw thorne ! A spray of Hawthorne, as it were, put ting freshly into leaf and flower and perfume just before the goodly tree itself was cut down so suds &lily and prematurely. It was the beginning of a new story by the world-famous American Poet- Romancist, Nathaniel Hawthorne_a new story by him to be entitled " The Dolliver Romance." Of that new story the novelist of the " Scarlet Letter" was destined only to write the opening chapter, a chapter hero presented to the English reader under the name of the childsheroine of it—Pansie! How gracefully and graciously it is written, this last outpouring from the fancy of Hawthorne, let the subjoined fragment attest ; "Pansie, darling," said Dr Dolliver cheerily, patting her brown hair with his tremulous fingers, " thou has put some of thine own. friskiness into poor old grandfather, this fine morning ! Doat know, child, that be canes near breaking In this merry humour they sat down to the table, great grandpana and Pantie side by side, and the kitten, as soon appeared, making a third in the party. First, she showed her mottled head out of Pansie's lap, delicately sipping milk from the child's basin without rebuke ; then she took post on the old gentleman's shoulder, purring like a spin ning-wheel, trying her claws in the wadding of his dress ing-gown, and still more impressively reminding him of her presence by putting out a paw to intercept a warmed over morsel of yesterday's chicken on its way to the doctor's mouth. After skilfully achieving this feat, she scrambled down upon the breakfast-table and began to wash her face and hands. Evidently these companions were all three on intimate terms, as was natural enough, since a great many childish impulses were softly creeping back on the simple minded old man ; insomuch that, if no worldly necessities nor painful infirmity had disturbed him, his remnant of life might have been as cheaply and cheerily enjoyed as the early playtime of the kitten and the child. Old Dr Dolli• ver and his great-granddaughter (a ponderous title, which seemed quite to overwhelm the tiny figure of Pansie) had met one another at the two extremities of the life-circle ; her sunrise served him for a sunset, illuminating his locks of silver and hers of golden brown with a homogeneous shimmer of twinkling light. Little Pansie was the one earthly creature that inherited a drop of the Dolliver blood. The Doctor's only child, poor Bessie's offspring, had died the batter part of a hundred years before, and his grandchildren, a numerous and dimly remembered brood, had vanished along his weary track in their youth, maturity, or incipient ago, till, hardly knowing how it had all happened, he found himself tottering onward with an infant's small fingers in his nerveless grasp. Apply those closing words—not, as here hinted, to old Dr Dolliver, but to Nathaniel Hawthorne him self—and see how marvellously, pathetically, mys teriously they express the sudden straying away and evanishing of the dreamer of this dream of Pansie, away into the land of dreams—" hardly knowing how it all had happened, he found himself tottering onward with an infant's small fingers in his nerve• less grasp." And so—passing from our ken with the child Pansie's hand in his—adieu to Nathaniel Hawthorne! LITERATURE. Robson. A Sketch. By George Augustus Sala. Rotten, Piccadilly. The Last Hours of Prince Albert. There has reached us from abroad a most inter esting extract from a letter which was written by a member of the Queen's household shortly after the death of Prince Albert. The extremely confidential position which the writer held at the time not only gives the assurance of perfect reliability, but invests the following lines with a very special interest. After describing the :grief and fears of the whole household for the Queen, th© writer speaks of the personal loss sustained in the death of Prince Albert: "How I shall miss his conversation about the ehil. dren. He used often to come into the schoolroom to speak about the education of the children, and he never left me without my feeling that he had strengthened my hands and raised the standard I was aiming at. Nothing mean or frivolous could exist in the atmosphere that surrounded him ; the conversation could not be trifling if he was in the room. I dread the return of spring for my dear lady. It was his favourite time of the year—the opening leaves, the early flowers, and fresh green were such a delight to him; and he so loved to"point out their beauties to his children that it will be ter rible to see them without him. The children kept his table supplied with primroses, which he espe cially loved. The last Sunday he passed on earth was a very blessed one for the Princess Alice to !ook back upon. He was very ill and very weak, and she spent the afternoon alone with him, while the others were in church. He begged to have his sofa drawn to the window, that he might see the sky and the cloads sailing past. He then asked her to play to him, and she went through several of his favorite hymns and chorale. After she had played some time she looked round and saw him lying back, his hands folded as if in prayer, and his eyes shut. lie lay so long without moving that she thought he had fallen asleep. Presently he looked up and smiled. She said, ' Were you asleep, dear papa ?"Oh no,' he answered, only I have such sweet thoughts.' During his illness his hands were often folded in prayer ; and when ho did not speak, his serene face showed that the happy thoughts were with him to the end. The Princess Alice's fortitude has amazed us all. She fi t h7r from the first that both her father and mother's fi r mnos depended on her firmness, and she set her self to the duty. He loved to speak openly of his condition. .and had many wishes to express. Ho loved to hear i...ymns and prayers. He could not speak to the Que,ln of himself, for she could not bear to listen, and shut her eyes to the danger. His daughter slaw that she must act differently, and she never let her voice falter or shed a single tear in his presence. She sat by him, listened to all he said, repeated hymns, and then, when she could bear it no longer, would walk calmly to the door, and then rush away to her room, roturnit;g soon with the same calm and pale face without any,appearance of the agitation she had gone through. I have had several interviews with the poor Queen since. The first time she said, 'You can feel for me, for you have gone through this trial.' Another time she said how strange it seemed, when silo looked back, to see how much for the last six months: the Prince's mind had dwelt upon death and the fuWre state ; their conversation had so often turned upo,l these subjects and they had read together a book Palled " Heaven our Home,"which had interested him v." 17 much. He once said to her, ' We don't know in wha: state we shall meet again; bat that we shall recog nize each other and be together in eternity I am perfeotly certain.' It seemed as if it had been in tended to prepare her mind and comfort her, though of course it did not strike her then. She said she was a wonder i 9 herself, and she was sure it was in answer to the prayers of her people that she was so sustained. She feared it would not last, and that times of agony wore befok . ,e her. She said, There's l that I felt when I lost not the bitterness in this trig_ en ;but now 1 can • my mother—l was so rebellious :h see the mercy and love that are mlzed in my trial.' Her whole thought now is to walk worthy o f i and her greatest comfort to think that la:s sprit I always near her, and knows all that she i s —Northern Whig. doing. ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—OR Lronday afternoon a young man named Frederick wi ni ali :!4, a cooper, 26 years of age, was in the act of cross ing the kiaLlaci Railway, near one of the engine sheds, for the purpose of res cling the Horfield Gardens, when an engine suddenly emerges d from the shed. The alarm was given by the driver; too Lto, however, for the man to escape, and ha was knocked dows"... . the wheels of the engine going over his legs and severing then.: from his body. He was immediately conveyed to the infirm:lqt and is now going on favourably.— Weafern ,Daily Tress: FATAL DUEL.—A Geneva letter in the ,Temps says The Socialist agitator M. Lassa lle has just los, his life in a duel with a Moldo-Wallachian. He was only 40 years of age. The adversaries fought with pistols at 15 paces, and were to fire while the signal, one, two, three, was being pronounced. Lassalle was an excellent marksman, but the Moldo-Wallachian fired at the word one,' and his ball traversed the intestines of tho other. The Countess do Hatzfeld, who happened to be at Geneva at the time, imme diately sent for several experienc ed surgeons, and, amongst others, for M. Chelius, jun., of Heidelberg; but on their arrival the sufferer was already on the point of death. The duel did not originate in political motives." THE STORM AT LIYERFOOL AND IN THE CHAN. NXL.—During the whole of Sunday night, Monday, and up to an early hour yesterday, a very severe storm of wind and rain swept over Liverpool, and from accounts which aro constantly coming to hand, it must have extended tar away clown the Irish Channel. Several Welsh and Irish coasters have been very roughly handled, and one or two large foreign-going vessels have been compelled to put back to the Mersey for shelter. Fortunately, up to the despatch of our parcel yesterday evening, no serious disaster had been reported at Liverpool. The splendid new screw steamer City of Dublin, belonging to Messrs Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steam. ship Company, which left Liverpool on Saturday for New York, has been obliged to return to the Mersey in a crippled condition. The City of Dublin encountered the full force of the gale on Sunday, and the tremendous seas caused the ship to pitch very much, so that at times her screw would be completely out of the water. On ono of the occasions, in the absence of any resisting power, the main driving wheel went nun , ' at such a rate as to beck all the cogs out of the wheel. If you are desirous to study the symptoms of political movement in Germany, mind you do not come to look for them in the German cities—not, at least, in these dead months of August and Sep-- tember. The very landlord of your hotel is out of town, and the representative of your Gracious Queen is not only off to the Hartz mountains him self, but be has actually shut up shop, and left no• body but a "small servant," a little, slovenly wench, to watch the dust as it gathers on the shelves of his desolate consular office. There was a meet ing of all the German agriculturists the other day in Hanover; a convention of all the German jurists yesterday at Brunswick. The papers throughout the land are full of their long-winded deliberations; yet there was scarcely a soul astir about the streets of either city, and we were not aware of any even temporary ignition of the waters of the Leine or the Ocker, as they flowed peaceably and somewhat murkily past their walls. It must, one would think, go rather hard with a traveller, who should find neither owls at Athens nor earthen pots at Samos, nor coals at Newcastle. But what would you say of a poor wight who had been baffled in his endeavours to fall in with a bookseller in Leipsic I' Yet such was the case with me. All the gentlemen in that line of business are to rendezbous here for the great Michaelmas Fair, and, in the meanwhile, they leave their comptoirs to take care of themselves. Of the clerks that are left behind one was blind, another a stutterer, a third hopelessly stupid—so I went no further with my inquiries. Of course, when everybody is out of town, the town still swarms with nobodies. At Hanover, which looked like Palmyr a the opera season opened on the 28th ult.; here, in Leipsic, on the Ist instant. The houses in both places were crammed, though the spectacle was something worse than third-rate. Some of the amateurs who called out "Herman Cortes !" nine times at the Court Theatre the other diy were certainly human beings, but they are not the people you want—not the political men. For these there is, at this bathing season, a general holyday. Were even all the politicians at their homes instead of at their Kursaals, one might doubt whether there can at any time be such a thing as political life in Germany. Even newspapers, though possibly as numerous is this country nanny where else in the world, seem not to be for the Ger mans the daily bread they are for other civilised people. Printed and published they are, no doubt, and, it may be surmised, read and inwardly di gested, but they are not as übiquitous as in France or Italy, where newsmen are to be heard bawling underneath every window; nor es iu the United States of America, where a news shop is esta blished at every third door of every street, or at the door of every bar-room of every hotel ; nor, finally, as in England, where every railway station is infested with news-dealers, both peripa tetic and stationary. Even in Hamburg, the busiest and most advanced centre of German corn• mercial life, the Nacrichten or the Borsenhalle can only be had on subscription, or, at the utmost, by way of favour, on application to the respective offices. I suppose the Germans take in such for home consumption ; the reading-rooms of the best hotels profess to keep the papers for the benefit of their customers, and a stray copy, now one, now of !mother, of these periodical publica. tions is to be found strewn here and there about the table, but as a general rule, only the stale copy, beer-stained, redolent of tobacco, torn to tatters, and hanging, not without difficulty, on the steel or wicker frame, which makes the reading or even the holding of it, a most troublesome task. Out of doors, it is neither the street porter nor the dienstmann nor the drowsky driver that is ever to be seen, as in other countries, with a newspaper in his hand. You hardly ever fall in with a fellow► traveller in a railway carriage, be it of the first, second, or third class, that happens to be so em ployed. Wore it ever the case, twenty to one your reading vie-a , via would, like yourself, be a stranger in the land. Whatever the cause may be, although every German can read, although writing and print ing men aro to be found in this country in greater numbers than anywhere else in Europe, reading seems to be a solemn ceremony, only to be per formed within closed walls, in the sanctuary of home, SE(Joivr. EDITION. fi,UN OFF!' CE, HALF -PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING IN7i'ELLIGENCE,—This Da WARWICK RACES—TIZIs DAY. (BY .E:LECTRIC TELEGRAM) 'WELTER CUP. Moulsey 000000000 I Principal • • 2 Overatone •• 3 S WEEPSTAK ES. Cloyt Patio Ethelred 3 NURSERY HANDICAP. Hefty Cedric Tilt 3 .... 1 Eleven ran. COUNTY HANDICAP. Genama 1 Soapstone Principal 3 Ten ran. W.A.D.WICK. CUP. East Lancashire Oldminster ................ Fantail Pont rain. MEINIBERS' PLATE. 1151 1 / 65 102 f 401 1 112 11Z 12i 951 41 65Z 5 41 1061 7 6 131 k 30i f lost I i Fatal Occurrence.—This Day, This morning an accident, attended with fatal results, took place in High-street, Bloomsbury. A man, very respectably attired, was observed by some persons standing on the kerb, apparently waiting for an omnibus. Just, however, as one of the Company's vehicles plying between Westminster and Camden-town was within a yard of the spot on which he was standing, the man suddenly fell into the road, and before the driver could pull up his horses both wheels passed over his body. On being raised from the ground he was found to be dead. The body was given over to the parochial authorities of St. Giles's, and the driver of the omnibus was taken into custody. On his being placed at the bar, before Mr. Vaughan, at the Bow-street Police-court, he gave his name as Joseph Prescott, but that not the slightest blame could attach to him was clearly proved by the evi dence of two of the passengers on the omnibus, who saw the man stagger and fall, but whether from a fit or the in fluence of drink of course an y could not say. Th e d r i ver; they wore of opinion, did all that was in his power to pre vent the accident, but the unfortunate man fell s.o near and directly in front of the wheels that the unfortunate circum stance was beyond control. Mr Vaughan said he should adjourn the case for a week, in order that a coroner's inquest and post mortem examina tion might be ratio of the body. There was nothing on the person of the deceas2d which could lead to his identity. Thetriver was released on his own recognisances. THE MINOR GERMAN STATES. (From the Times' CorresAnnient.) LEIPSIC, Sept. 3. Damascus ............ . Chelsea Rose filly ................... 2 ............ 3 Four ran. GRAND STAND PLATE. Birdfinder Practitioner 2 Orphene Eleven ran. DONCASTER ST LEGER. sto 2 agst Blair Athol (taken) 11 to 4 agst General Peel (taken) Bto 1 agst Miner (take 9) ARRIVALS AT LEICE "TER, Telegram, Roes, Corkscrew, Rattler, Land of the West, Catenue, Vision, Caller Ou, Duenna, Tyke, and Sensation. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. AMERICA. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM. 3 ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF LIMERICK. QUEENSTOWN, SEPT. 7. The extra Inman steamship City of Limerick, from New York, on the 25th ultimo, arrived here et 1 35 p.m. She brought 146 passengers, 45 of whom landed here, and proceeded at 1 45 p.m. for Liver pool. Her news has been fully anticipated by the City of Baltimore, which brought adviecs to the 27th August, HEALTH OF LONDON. (Front the Registrar• General's Report.) The deaths registered in London in the week that ended last Saturday were 1,441, showing a slightlincrease on the number in the previous week, which was 1,413. If the deaths from epidemic cholera in the 35th week of 1854 are excluded, it will be found that the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1,113, which corrected for increase of population will be come 1,227. Hence it appears that the deaths last week were 214 in excess of the estimated number. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 513. Under this head are ineuded seven deaths from smallpox, 58 from measlee, 62 from scarlatina, 18 from diphtheria, 23 from whoopingcough, 87 from typhus, 180 from diarrhcel, and nine from cholera. Of the 180 deaths caused by diarrhca 1, 159 were of children under five years of age, and the nine victims of cholera were under two years of age. Of the 1,441 persons who died during the week, 800 wero under 20 years of age, 210 were 20 and under 40, 180 were 40 and under 60, 207 were 60 and under 80, and 44 were 80 years of age and up wards. The deaths of five nonagenarians are re■ corded; the oldest was a man who had attained the age of 93 years. One hundred and fifty-one persons died from phthisis, the total number of persons dying from other diseases of the respiratory organs, bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, &c., being 149. Last week the births of 970 boys and 897 girls, in all 1,867 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1854-63 the average number (corrected) was 1,872. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 20.775 i n. The barometrical reading was 30'13 in. at the begin ning of the week, and decreased to 2952 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 60.3 deg., which is 1.3 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 81.0 deg. on Tuesday. The lowest night tempera, ture was 474 deg. on Thursday. The entire range of temperature in the week was therefore 33.6 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 61.3 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 9.1 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 73, complete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell during the week to the amount of 0.33 in. The general direction of the wind was aouth.west. The births registered in Dublin daring the week ending the 3d of September were 174, and the deaths were 120, in a population of 254,808 (in 1861), spread over an area of 3,508 statute acres. The numbers are kindly furnished by the Registrar General of Ireland. The deaths in Vienna, as returned by Dr. Glatter, were 280 in the week ending the 27th August,when the mean temperature was 61 . 2 deg., that at Green• with having been 52.2 deg. WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE IMPROVEMENTS.—YesA terday, by order of the Chief Commissioner of Public Works, the removal of the whole of the houses required to com plete the approaches to Westminster-bridge was commenced in Parliament-street, New Palace-yard, and Bridge street. A STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE FOR BIRKENHEAD. —At the monthly meeting of the Birkenhead Commis sioners yesterday it was agreed to appoint a committee to take into consideration the question of providing a stipen diary magistrate for . Birkenhead. The commissioners gene rally are in favour of the appointment of a paid magistrate, and the committee's chief business therefore will be to fix the salary, &c. THE ARREST. OF MULLER —On the arrival of Muller in England the officers in charge will at once pro ceed with him to London, where his examination will take place at the Bow-street Police-court, from which office the warrant was issued for his apprehension. It is expected that the examination will last two or three days. EIGHT NEW CRUISERS FOR THE CONFEDERATES: —A despatch, dated Baltimore,..Ang. 20, and which arrived in Liverpool by the Persia, says :—" A --fierruan mechanic, who has been employed for two yeantiathe Con ach f e d er ate navy department, in the construc tion of ironclad ve ssels, states there are two vessels at Wilmington, North Carolina, ready to run the blocka de. They E car vessel Carrie.' ry 24- pounders,arrileo 4guns. a n d areale are covered,r also with 4 tto i n evhe atKingston, North Carolina. One of them is named the Moose. She carries 24spounders, and is to be commanded by Captain T. F. Lloyd, of the Confederate States Navy. There are also two vessels in the Pedee River, north of h o f which will be ready f u r duty in about Georgetown, Do t s r eaonu, Confederatener. One of States f n them it ' e l hu 'll etm e en other apnerh' Lieutenant l‘ perhaps is called the Nation, to wh i c h uo officer has been appointed as yet. B oth these ves sels are clad with iron four inches thick, and each carries four guns, 24 pounders. There is one ironclad budding at Plymouth, North Carolina. Her armour is 12 inches in thickness, and she is to be ready for sea in two months, She is to carry 12 pounder guns, and will be named the Albemarle: This German also reports a new gunboat getting ready in Richmond, which will be coated with 4-inch plates. One eingular featpre about the armament of these vessels is, that not one of them carries guns of a heavier calibre than 24 pounders. The Earl and Countess of Egmont left town within the last few days on a visit to the family estates in Ireland.; Viscountess Jocelyn and Hon. Misses Jocelyn will leave Switzerland next week on a tour in Italy. From Switzerland her ladyship and daughter's go to Turin. Bop Intelligence. MAIDSTONE.-Picking is now general. The hops in must grounds come down short of expectations. Red rue: and white mould are on the increase, and the hops tap fast changing colour. Still there will be some very first-rate samples in this neighbour hood. WEST MAnnixo,---Where picking hat commenced the hops come down fast. The wind and rain have turned some of them red, but there is not much mo uld. Few are yet quite ripe, but it is feared they will not keep. Picking will be general at the beginning of the week. ROCHESTER.—Picking has now commenced in this district, and during the present week will be come general, From present appearances the crop ,; . opears to be overrated, as the hops come to scale li g h:er than %%Eli anticipated. The quality, on the whole, is good, but in OM gardens the late frosty nights hav,- proved very injurious. CANTERBETIJ .—During the past week mould has made its appearance amongst the hops, although as yet it has not made much havoc. In one or two grounds picking has commenced, but this hops do not come down quite so well as was anticipated, the quantity being short underneath. The average will be about 8 cwt. to the acre. SUSSEX.—Many of the plantations have improved ander the influence of the recent rains, and espe cialij during the past week. There is some draw back in the shape of mcald, which has increased it.; a few localities, but not yet to such an extent as to very seriously reduce the crop. WORCESTEII.—Most of the planters began pick ing last week, and it will become general this week. Four pockets of very inferior quality were said on Saturday week at £5 12s per cwt. Hol . PLANTING IN THE VALE 01 EVESHAM.-- Considerable interest has been felt by the introduc tion of hop culture in the much famed Vale of Evesham. The ground was first planted three years ego, and in this year fully polled, and pro mises a yield on the average of eight to nine cwt per acre, acre, While the bedded outset s p lanted this spring will yield about two cwt per acre ; they aro all re markably free from diseasc,and promise to produce a sample of excellent quality.— South EasUrn Gazette, M. DE PERSIGNY'S SPEECII.--The Inclqendance Beige says:—" The approbation given to M. de I'ersiguy's speech by the Constitutionnel hos produced a most unplea sant impression in Paris. The attitude of thesemi-official journal in this matter is the less comprehensiblo, inasmuch as M. p er siguy, according to the information sent us, far from having been the echo in his seech of distinguished v i e ws, was within an ace, on the contr p ary, of being requested to display more circumspection and muntratiou." 128 4 1401 OS: 1 G 4 93} 3 83 8